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US tech giant Microsoft is planning to hold two WinHEC events in December that will reveal its virtual reality (VR) headset plans for Windows 10.

The Windows Hardware Engineering Community (WinHEC) is a series of technical conferences and workshops, where Microsoft elaborates on its hardware plans for Windows devices. The first event will be held between December 8 and December 9, while the second event will be held between December 14 and December 15.

Microsoft at its Surface event last week announced it had partnered with HP, Lenovo, Dell, Acer, and Asus to produce VR headsets for Windows 10 PCs, are are especially optimised for mixed reality experiences, using the Windows Holographic shell and experience.

Both the events are designed for hardware manufacturers to better understand the software plans for Windows Holographic, a mixed reality platform built around the API of Windows 10. Speaking with Polygon, Microsoft’s HoloLens chief Alex Kipman said more details about the VR headsets would be provided at the WinHEC events in December.Kipman said the first wave of VR headsets will be opaque, so users will not be able to see through them directly without the aid of cameras. He also revealed that the headsets will feature a wide field of view, will be tethered to the computer via a long wire, allow six degrees of freedom, and support inside-out tracking.

The initial devices will start shipping after the Windows 10 Creators Update is made available to download in March 2017 and will function like VR headsets that connect to a PC, and will support six degrees of freedom and inside-out tracking.

“At Pondicherry plant, where we are already manufacturing desktops, has the capacity and flexibility to manufacture laptops (notebooks). The company will have to take a call when to do it,” Dinesh Nair, director, consumer business,Lenovo India said.

He said that Lenovo, which already started manufacturing at its Chennai plant, is committed to the ‘Make in India’ initiative, which is evident from the visit of the company’s CEO and Chairman Yang Yuanqing in 2015 for a meeting with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Lenovo, which is already the third largest vendor of PCs in India in terms of market share, has redesigned its entire range of portfolio targeting the youth and the business segments and keeping the price at competitive levels, he told reporters in Kolkata on Monday.

Nair said that manufacturing laptops in India would give more flexibility as at least two months were needed to ship products from China.

Currently, the entire range of laptops are being shipped from China, he said.

In terms of revenue contribution, the laptops segment was contributing to 85 percent to 88 percent of overall PC sales, the rest being desktops, Nair said.

On market growth of PCs, he said that it remained flat in the last quarter.

Deutsche Bank, Motilal Oswal and SBI Capital Markets will also be hired as bookrunners. Photo: Mint

Mumbai: BSE Ltd, India’s second-biggest exchange, plans to hire Axis, Edelweiss, Jefferies and Nomura as joint global coordinators for a $150 million initial public offering in India, IFR reported, citing two sources close to the transaction.

Deutsche Bank, Motilal Oswal and SBI Capital Markets will also be hired as bookrunners, reported IFR, a Thomson Reuters publication.

BSE will file a draft prospectus for the IPO by next month and plans to launch the offering before 31 March 2017, IFR added. Reuters

Karachi: Test captain Misbah-ul-Haq has been asked by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to continue in his role for next year’s tour to England and put off any retirement plans. (Misbah-ul-Haq Reveals Plans to Retire After Possible India Series)

PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan told the media in Lahore that Misbah would inform the Board about his retirement plans after the Test series against England ends next month.

“We have told him to delay his retirement for a year if he is thinking on those lines,” Khan said.

“We feel his presence as captain and senior player will be invaluable to the team for the Test tours to England and Australia next year,” he added.

Misbah, 41, has said in recent media interactions that he will take a decision on his retirement after the Test series with England in the UAE.

Misbah, who has become Pakistan’s most successful Test captain after leading Pakistan to victory over England in the second match in Dubai last week, has said he remains undecided about his future.

The middle-order batsman has been the Test captain since late 2010 but has not got the opportunity to lead the team in the longest format in England, Australia or India.

Pakistan will tour England next summer for a four-match series after 2010 while it last played Tests in Australia also in early 2010.

The PCB chief also made it clear that he had not as yet approved the final squad for the one-day series against England. (‘Big Concerns’ Over Playing in India, Says Misbah-ul-Haq)

“I have had a discussion with the selectors on the ODI squad but nothing is final as yet. It is the job of the selectors and team management to see which is the best possible combination for the matches against England,” he stated.

Reliance Jio, a subsidiary of oil-to-retail conglomerate Reliance Industries, is planning a confinedlaunch of its virtualservices in December. Reliance Industries will launch its 4G LTE smartphones under the brandLYF earlier than Jio services are rolled out. completebusinesslaunch, but, is likely to happen in 2016-17. Reliance Industries, which has thus far invested round Rs wi-fi,000 crore in rolling out India’s biggest 4G broadband network, is predicted to become a “disruptor” inside thesurprisinglycompetitivehomemarketplace.

9) coins–wealthy Reliance’s access into the crowded telecom zone poses a potentialhazard for set upplayerssuch as Bharti Airtel and Vodafone’s neighborhood unit. consistent with Motilal Oswal, Reliance Jio will “disrupt” dataas well as voice marketplace given its non-legacy infrastructure and 0 dependence on voice revenue.

10) Reliance Jio is making plans to proportion spectrum in the 800 MHz band with Reliance Communications across seven circles. RCom is managedby using Anil Ambani, the more youthful brother of Mukesh Ambani.

Reliance Jio’s plans were showcased on Friday, while Reliance Industries stated its Q2 numbers. Reliance Industries shares jumped over 5wirelessin step with cent on Monday following the oil-to-retail conglomerate’s stellar showwithin the September zone. Reliance Industries on Friday had suggested arecordinternetwi-fit of Rs 6,720 crore.

on linesplendorstore Nykaa.com Wednesday stated it plans to raise Rs. 60-100 crore for advertising andmake-upputting in place warehouses even as itmakes a speciality ofestablishingextrastores to deepen its footprint.

“We plan to raiseany other Rs. 60 to Rs. a hundred crore from personalassets…majority of fundingmight be into marketing to construct the brand, warehouses and also on generation to permitgreaterrange of buyers to shopconcurrentlyat the portal,” Nykaa.com Founder and CEO Falguni Nayar informednewshounds Chandigarh.

China is planning a supercomputer 1,000 times more powerful than its groundbreaking Tianhe-1A within two years as it faces rising demand for next-generation computing.

The National Supercomputer Centre in Tianjin will release a prototype in 2017 or 2018 of an “exascale” computer – one capable of at least a billion billion calculations per second, Meng Xiangfei, head of the applications department, said on Friday.

Exascale computing is considered the next frontier in the development of supercomputers and it would represent a significant achievement in computer engineering.

Tianhe-1A was recognised as the world’s fastest computing system in 2010. Though it has since been superseded by Tianhe-2, Tianhe-1A is being more widely used.

Computer scientists are finding it challenging to run contemporary applications at their optimum on faster supercomputers.

Weeds grow amongst the tea shrubs at the closed Bundapani Tea Garden in Alipurduar district, some 145 kms from Siliguri on January 3,2016.

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The State and the Union government will take steps to reopen tea gardens in West Bengal.

Union Minister of Commerce Nirmala Sitharaman has proposed a revised minimum wage for tea garden workers in West Bengal as the government and the State reached an agreement to reopen the gardens, a trade union official said.

A majority of the workers accepted the government’s offer for a minimum wage of about Rs. 250.

“The proposal made in the meeting was that along with Rs. 122.50 a fringe benefit of Rs.109 will be added and the minimum wages will be fixed near Rs. 250,” a senior political leader present at the meeting told The Hindu on Tuesday.

The State and the Union government will take steps to reopen tea gardens of the region and ensure that non–functional or abandoned tea gardens function properly.

“Everything concerning the tea gardens was discussed at the meeting. Both the government agreed that the situation needs their intervention and is necessary to open the tea gardens ,” Zia- Ul-Alam, Convenor of Joint Forum of Trade Unions, an umbrella organisation of 24 trade unions working in tea sector told The Hindu.

Ms. Sitharaman held a meeting with West Bengal’s Education Minister Partha Chatterjee and the representatives of different tea garden unions at Siliguri in Darjeeling district. She visited Danguajhar tea garden (run by Goodricke group) in the State’s Jalpaiguri district.

She also met G. P. Goenka, the chairperson of Duncans Group, which owns majority of the abandoned tea gardens of the northern region of the state. “The Union minister categorically said that the provision of minimum wages should be categorically implemented in the tea gardens,” Kiran Kalindi, President of Progressive Plantation Tea Workers Union said.

Amendments to certain Acts in tea plantations which has been raised by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi also came up for discussion during the meeting

There are about a dozen closed tea gardens in the region and about 22 of the gardens are either abandoned or non functional.